One minute time-lapse video of the total cloud inversion that filled Grand Canyon on Thursday, December 11, 2014. There is no audio track.

The action that takes place in this 1 minute video would take 15 minutes in real time. In some ways it looks like ocean tides coming in and going out. NPS Video by Michael Quinn.

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This is here simply because it’s an extraordinary bit of animation and easily one of the most beautiful and mesmerizing things I’ve seen in quite some time. The 23-year-old Hungarian animator Balázs Simon heard the Nils Frahm’s piece “Re” and was compelled to create a video for it.